Passage:
Dedicated to promoting economic and environmental sustainability in Vietnam, Vo Trong Nghia Architects created a checkerboard design for FPT University Hanoi's administrative building that is unusual but efficient. Shaped like a dragon, the building faces the prevailing wind, and large trees on each balcony help cool the airflow, reducing the need for air conditioning. Although the building's unconventional concrete façade seems like it would hold heat and increase energy use, university officials report power savings when compared with the costs of powering its previous administrative building.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
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A. The dragon-shaped design of a building like the one created by Vo Trong Nghia Architects makes it unique but impractical. | ||
B. Creating unconventional features like the ones in the administrative building designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects is the most sustainable plan for lowering Vietnam's power costs. | ||
C. University officials have long promoted the structures of environmental designers such as Vo Trong Nghia Architects. | ||
D. Although unusual, the design of the administration building by Vo Trong Nghia Architects has reduced the university's energy use. |
Restate each sentence and look for repeated ideas to determine the text's primary point. Choose the answer with information similar to those repeated ideas.
S1 | Vo Trong Nghia Architects designed a unique university building with an efficient design. |
S2 | The placement of the dragon-shaped building and the trees on its balconies help cool it, creating less need for air conditioning. |
S3 | The outside of the strange-looking building makes it look like it's expensive to power, but the university has saved money on its power bills. |
Paraphrasing the sentences reveals two repeated ideas: the building's unusual appearance and the fact that its environmentally friendly design reduces power costs. The answer choice with similar information related to the text's primary point states that although unusual, the design of the administration building by Vo Trong Nghia Architects has reduced the university's energy use.
(Choice A) The dragon shape is unique, but it doesn't keep the building from having practical, energy-saving features.
(Choice B) Although the administrative building does have unique features that help to lower its energy costs, the text never claims that this design is the most sustainable (able to be maintained) plan to lower costs for the entire country.
(Choice C) The text mentions that Vo Trong Nghia Architects promotes sustainability in Vietnam, but there is no mention of university officials encouraging the design of environmentally friendly structures.
Things to remember:
Paraphrase the text to identify repeated ideas that contribute to its primary point and then choose the answer that contains the same ideas.